Re: File Transfer problems/.

Allon Stern (allon@intercon.com)
Wed, 7 Dec 94 15:56 PST

Rui-Tao Dong (rdong@math.uci.edu) wrote:
> That's exactly what happened to me when I run ZDOS under a DOS emulator
> on a Linux machine. I suspect that is a flow control problem? I tried
> to lower the speed to 2400 (better than booting DOS :-), and still
> doesn't work. I understand ZDOS is free. Is the source also
> available? Maybe I can hack something for generic Unix machines.

I've actually been thinking about this for a while, and I've actually got
almost all I need to write a set of unix tools for zoomer connectivity.

The idea is to write each command as a separate program. The program suite
would likely be of the form:
zls: list files on the zoomer
zcd: print or change the current working directory on the zoomer
zcls: clear the screen on the zoomer
zrm: remove a file from the zoomer
zquit: quit file transfer mode on the zoomer
zmkdir: create a directory on the zoomer
zrmdir: remove a directory on the zoomer
zmv: move a file on the zoomer
zput: put a file from the local current directory to the zoomer's current
directory
zget: get a file from the zoomer's current directory to the local current
directory.

Currently, I have enough information to write all of it except for zput and
zget.

I also plan to write a Macintosh program to do file transfers.

--
Allon